The jQuery team has a new release, jQuery 1.1.3. The main features are: Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2 A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events A re-written effects system (with an accompanying fx test suite), featuring faster execution and better cross-platform support New selectors: Unicode, Read the rest…

There has been a lot of talk in the Digg community about their new comment system. Joe Stump implemented the new system, and in the process he took out Script.aculo.us, and created a jQuery plugin based solution. By far the most complex portion of the comments system was how dynamic it was going to be. Read the rest…

plainTemplate is a new library that aims to separate out an HTML template from design and coding, thanks to selectors. The designer works by simply using HTML in any way they wish, and then the programmer: Write selectors based on HTML structure Pass those selectors and Controller data to plainTemplate plainTemplate parses template, removing designer’s Read the rest…

Kevin Hoyt has posted a very detailed entry on a file upload component that he created with Apollo and JavaScript: Letâ€™s say that you take a lot of pictures. You take pictures, but you donâ€™t want to think about how to upload them. Youâ€™d really like an application to monitor a directory for new images, Read the rest…

Interface Elements is to jQuery, as Script.aculo.us is to Prototype. It contains a slew of UI controls such as: Animate Effects Draggables Droppables Sortables Selectables Resizables Slider Tooltips Slideshow Imagebox Autocompletion Autoscrolling Autoexpander Accordion Tabs in Textareas 3D Carousel Fisheye menu You can see these all in action via the demos which include some real Read the rest…

Dave Sifry announced that Technorati has had a refresh. The core changes are in simplicity, and working across more than just blogs. You will see the moving header across the top, trying to show the live web. The Ajax goodness on Technorati is brought to us via jQuery, as you can see via: < View Read the rest…

jQuery has had a recent set of interesting news, so we thought we should write it up: jQuery works nicely with Rails. Geoff Buesing assumed that switching his Rails application from Prototype to jQuery would be a pain, but then discovered that you can write jQuery-formatted Javascript with RJS templates, out-of-the-box, no special helpers or Read the rest…

The web can bring out the worst in people. Some idiots have been DOS attacking jquery.com, and their hosts offered such good service that instead of protecting them, they shut off their service and told them to move. I have had to deal with DOS attacks at various companies, and have been very thankful that Read the rest…

The Yahoo! UI team kindly invited me to listen to John Resig, of Mozilla and jQuery, talk to the team on “Advancing JavaScript with Libraries”. John wanted to talk about his experiences developing a number of JavaScript libraries, At Mozilla John is working on FUEL, a JavaScript library that should be shipping in Firefox 3, Read the rest…

Jesse Skinner has created an Ajax Flickr search FlickrCash which uses jQuery. FlickrCash searches for photos on Flickr in the most efficient way, so that you can see as many thumbnails as will fit in your browser. It loads up to 10 pages in the background, so it’s very fast to browse through to find Read the rest…

Jack Slocum has an early preview release of Ext which shows the decoupling allowing either jQuery or YUI as a core library choice. It is getting very close, and now they just need to nail down items such as getting animations working just right in the jQuery version. Both teams are working together to finish Read the rest…

John Resig gives his honest opinion on the Open Ajax Alliance (which his employer is a part of, Mozilla). John talks about technical and non-technical issues: First he hits out at how corporate the alliance is Then he talks about the OpenAjax Hub and a few items he would like different In short: The OpenAjax Read the rest…

PQuery is to jQuery as Rails helpers is to Prototype and Script.aculo.us: PQuery is a set of helper classes for JQuery JavaScript library.This library allows you to easily integrate AJAX , Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts.IT has a small foot print and is compatible with PHP4 and PHP5. Download PQuery PQuery Read the rest…